Finsbury construction site shootout

The Finsbury construction site shootout occurred at a construction site in the Finsbury section of London in 2004 when a team of SO19 operatives stormed a construction site used as a base by the Russian Mafia in order to rescue the missing journalist Jackie Philips. Ben Mitchell led a small team into the building, and a massive shootout erupted as the mobsters attempted to fight back the police. The SO19 operatives cleared several rooms as they made their way upstairs, and they ultimately located Philips, although they were unable to find her captor Nadya Prushnatova, who had escaped. The Russians attempted to demolish the building before the SO19 troopers could escape, but they succeeded in fighting their way out of the site and taking Philips with them to the police station; they also captured Levi Stratov, the Latvian mobster whom they had tailed to the construction site in the first place.